STEP IN THE LIGHT Step in the Light is a joint end performance of Expanded Contemporary Dance and the Modern Theatre Dance in which three generations of dancers will shine. It consists of a matinee of first year ECD students presenting their own collaborative projects and an evening triple bill of ECD2 and MTD3. Artistic directors Bojana Bauer and Angela Linssen invited three renowned choreographers to work with the students for a period of 6 weeks. The result of this process are three pieces in one evening ranging from repertoire to improvised work.
New study programme Expanded Contemporary Dance started in 2019. Current Modern Theatre Dance and Urban Contemporary students will complete their education in the next year within the existing curriculum. During the transition phase many collaborations between the three programs are taking place. This end-year performance of ECD and MTD is one of them.
MODERN THEATRE DANCE The Modern Theatre Dance course is a four year bachelor of arts degree course in which students are supported to become people with passion for dance; with a deep understanding of how and what to do; who are fully present and who dare to communicate through their complete physical spectrum with focus, courage and persistence; who stand infused with the energy of their breath and
breadth; who willingly and consciously steer their bodies; who dare to ask and who can ask; who add, through their personalities, presence, knowledge and skills; who are proactive, creative and concrete.
Dancers who modulate their bodies from inside out and with clear direction; who can regulate their energy and deal with tension effectively by applying lightness and in the ease with which they move through movement sequences; who with a continuity of breath give fullness and color to kinetic phrases.
You will see the last cohort of MTD dancing. Next season these young and strong dance artists will go into the professional field as interns and finalize their studies in June 2022.
EXPANDED CONTEMPORARY DANCE Expanded Contemporary Dance is a full time Bachelor education in dance. It is an innovative, varied and dynamic program which prepares dancers for a life- long career in dance. Together with teachers and guest artists, students explore the future of dance and question what is ‘contemporary’. ECD dancers come from diverse backgrounds of street and club culture, formal academic training, traditional, social or competitive practice. Throughout the education they develop their physical and mental imagination, awareness and precision. They are supported on their path to become high-level dancers and co-creating performers with distinct personal signature and a daring artistic voice.
16:00 - ECD 1 STUDENT PROJECTS Coaches: Min Li & Rabbani
I. I. I. I. By: Dengling Levine, Maren Weertman, UgnLaurinaviit, Zoé Ducros See the limits of our bodies, shapeless lines crossing spaces. They dissipate as fast as they appeared. Listen to the undulations and the lines, they are making sound. - Are they already gone? A little bit of By: Nara Gonçalves, Gyuhyeong Yoo, Amisha Kumra, Wiktoria Kocon
Four people build connections and roots in an environment of constant novelty, challenge and inspiration. They listen, share, discover and support one another. And as they learn about each other, they learn about themselves as well.
"Still in consideration" By: Pedro Afonso Machado, Marilou Fortuné, Léo Geens Music: "The Brushman Sweep" - Clayton Cameron A work in progress free for each individual and the collective. A colorful palette of revelations and repetition. Still in consideration...
WHY. By: Peer Jonkers, Ina Wojdya, Dicko-Andrea Din Music: CBeebies & BBC Three dancers trying to understand each other. Why did they drift away? Slowly drifting awaahehey
"Title" By: Layla Miño, Damian Haack, Bryan Nurhakim, Jacopo Marrese This year has been a lot to digest so we wanted a piece that was light on the stomach, and might even get it jiggling with the occasional laugh. We take not taking ourselves seriously, seriously.
Make it make sense
By: Grt Vosylit,AbigailVrede, Ryan le-Nguyen, Jimi Dormans sense making continuous or not make it make sense
20:00 ADDIO ALLA FINE Credits Choreography:Emio Greco & Pieter C. Scholten - ICK Dance Amsterdam Concept en design:Pieter C. Scholten Original sound:Pieter C. Scholten en David te Marvelde Original light:Henk Danner en Paul Beumer Costume design:Clifford Portier Artistic Assitance & Rehearsal director ICK Dance Amsterdam: Dereck Cayla Rehearsal director MTD: John Taylor
Dancers Ovidi Álvarez Ferré, Beatriz Olival Baptista, Alida Bergakker, Coline Delgado, Paul Elie, Clara Grosjean, Simon Lelièvre, Simon Lelièvre, Elisha Mercelina, Yam Omer, Antonina Pushkavera, Dan Rdulescu, Gaspard Schmitt, Oscar Valenza
Addio alla Fine is a search for a physical and mental zero-point that ends in exhaustion, but also paves the way for new experiences. The end becomes a new beginning. A peerless choreography by Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten, which premiered as a location project on June 16, 2012 in the Holland Festival and later also premiered as a theater version on October 6, 2013 during the Nederlandse Dansdagen.
The starting point for this performance was the film E la Nave Va (1983) by Italian director Federico Fellini. In his film, the crème de la crème of the art world undertakes a boat trip to bid an appropriate farewell to the greatest opera singer of all time. Also in Addio alla Fine, the audience boards its own imaginary Noah's Ark and is confronted with an accumulation of sounds and choreography.
Addio Alle Fine constituted a closing piece and the opening of a new era for Greco and Scholten. How do we give direction to breaking through the great unease? How do we organize an unlimited world? How do we make people take responsibility for others again? Howe can we make the short fuse grow longer again? Both makers believe that the role of art us to provide a first step in this direction. Not to take us back to a community of the sixties, but to activate a sense of common sense.
Dereck Cayla Dereck Cayla is a French/Irish dancer and choreographer based in Amsterdam. He graduated in 2008 from the Conservatoire National de Musique et de Danse de Paris. In 2009 he joined ICKamsterdam ensemble under the artistic direction of Pieter C. Scholten and Emio Greco. His work as a dancer at the International Choreographic Kunst Centrum gave him the chance to work for interesting artists like: Emio Greco / P C Scholten, Nicole Beutler, Andrea Boi, Robyn Orlin… Dereck is now developing his own research as a choreographer, lately he was interested in using physical limitation to further develop movement based choreography and inspired by the myth of the Mermaid. Resulting into a short film ‘Sirènes’ created together with film director Pierre Bessette and a dance piece ‘ Mermaids’ which was supported by Ickamsterdam and premiered at Julidans on July 2019. Dereck can be seen on stage in ‘Mermaids’, together with ICK-dancer Victor Callens. Since 2017 Dereck is teaching Double Skin/ Double Mind methodology and transmitting repertoire from choreographer Emio Greco and P C. Scholten at AHK.
THE CIRCLE EFFECT 2.0
Credits Choreography: Andrea Leine en Harijono Roebana of LeineRoebana Artistic Assitance: Ederson Rodriques Xavier Rehearsal director: Uri Eugenio, Kris Mohammed Adem, Andrea Pisano, Timon De Ridder Rehearsal director ECD: Tamara Beudeker Music: Wiebe de Boer, Han Hotten of Soundpalette, John Zorn, Josquin des Prez
Dancers Salya Berraf, Wan-Yun Chen, Elias Clark, Sem Deliveyne, Eivinas Dziena, Hannah Fernandes Badura, Alberte Buch Gøbel, Balder Stuestøl Hansen, Dovile Krutulyt, Tara Pula, Ummi Renteria Wouters, Margot Safi, Ana Margarida Tasso de Sousa, Erikas ilaitis
The Circle Effect by choreographers Andrea Leine and Harijono Roebana premiered on January 19, 1995.
Andrea Leine and Harijono Roebana made a special version of this half-hour performance for 14 students of Expanded Contempory Dance. Ederson Rodriques Xavier, dancer in the performance together with Leine and Roebana at the time, was closely involved in the process with the students. The students have worked with the ideas behind the performance and mastered the specific movement language.
Leine: 'At that time we were investigating asymmetric structures. We worked with curved lines and movement that could start anywhere in your body: your knee, your crown, and with a force as if your limbs are being pulled from the outside. 'Physical schizophrenia', we called it. Torsos made a kind of rudder movement, with a straight spine. As precise as ballet, but it looked more plastic.' Mirjam van de Linden De Volkskrant 2016.
LeineRoebana LeineRoebana conquered a unique place in the Dutch and international dance world with her unique, idiosyncratic dance language and working method. For them, dance is increasingly becoming a meeting place with people from different backgrounds, cultures and disciplines. In their successful productions GhostTrack and LIGHT, for example, they linked contemporary dance with gamelan music from Indonesia.
With their unparalleled physical mastery, the LeineRoebana dancers know how to touch the audience right in the heart. No matter how strange or complex the coordination of movements may be in the layered performances of dance, music, text and design.
For Andrea Leine and Harijono Roebana, dance is a physical form of thinking; a way to relate to the world around you. Music has an equal place in the work of choreographers. There is always something to be conquered in the combination of dance and music. Both the audible and the visible of dancers and musicians are part of a cross-disciplinary choreography. Together they form a whole. One breath. A change in the dance has consequences for the music and vice versa. A musical thought continues in motion. The musicians move, sing and speak. A dance theme becomes music. Musicians move, sing, speak; the dancers and singers unite those two disciplines contrapuntally and unemphatically in their bodies.
IN THE EXCHANGE Credits By Michael Schumacher in collaboration with the students of MDT3 and Vivianne Rodrigues de Brito
Music: Björk, John Cage, Steven Heather
Dancers Ovidi Álvarez Ferré, Beatriz Olival Baptista, Alida Bergakker, Coline Delgado, Paul Elie, Clara Grosjean, Simon Lelièvre, Simon Lelièvre, Elisha Mercelina, Yam Omer, Antonina Pushkavera, Dan Rdulescu, Gaspard Schmitt, Oscar Valenza
In the exchange is a choreographic meditation on group dynamics, social discourse and the democratic process. What are the various paths created, followed, and rejected when an individual moves into and out of a group?
Michael Schumacher Michael Schumacher is a performing artist with roots in classical and modern dance. He has been a member of several groundbreaking companies, including Ballet Frankfurt, Twyla Tharp Dance, Feld Ballet, Pretty Ugly Dance Company, and Magpie Music Dance Company. As an independent artist, he has collaborated with and appeared in productions of Peter Sellars, William Forsythe, Jií Kylián, Sylvie Guillem, and Anouk van Dijk. Over the past twenty- five years, Schumacher has developed a unique approach to the discipline of improvisation. He currently resides in Amsterdam and conducts workshops in movement analysis and improvisation worldwide.
CREDITS Light & technique: Marcel Slagter Sound: Dave Krooshof Stage manager: Arlette Schriek Production Manager: Dorothea Sinnema Streaming and camera crew: Thorsten Alofs Lou Bikkers Julia Willms Artistic Director Expanded Contemporary Dance: Bojana Bauer Artistic Director Modern Theatre Dance: Angela Linssen Assistant ECD & MTD: Anouk Wognum
TEACHERS ECD & MTD A SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Teachers Patrick Acogny Hildegarde de Baets Roos van Berkel Tamara Beudeker Bojana Bauer Valentina Campora Elita Cannata Grianne Delaney Ad van Dijk Melvin Fraenk Konstantina Georgelou Jodi Gilbert Andrei Drosha Grekov Zeynep Gündüz Erzi Hoogveld MariaInes Villasmil Prieto Danae Kleida Helga Langen Merel Lammers Keren Levi Min Li Angela Linssen Ellen Meijer
Tracian Meikle Lobke Mienis Samuel Minguillion Jussi Nousianinen Jurgen Paulusma Gideon Poirier Fransien van der Putt Nicolas Rapaic Amy Raymond Det Rijven Vivianne Rodrigues de Brito Nienke Rooijakkers Rabanni Sayed Nedda Sou Manuela Tessi John Taylor Roel Vankerkchoven Heidi Vierthaler Ward ten Voorde Liat Waysbort Sara Wiktorowitz Rombout Willems Simone Zeefuik